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Monday morning at the High Table

by | Apr 10, 2023 | Mondays | 6 comments

Well, it’s Monday again – or very close to the close of it, for me. I hope you all had a very happy and restful Easter, and were able to celebrate it properly, in reverence of the Lord and His miraculous Resurrection. For my part, I mostly pottered around, slept a lot, and did some useful things.

But perhaps the most fun part of it all involved going to the movies today, to watch John Wick Chapter 4.

Now, I personally am a big fan of the JW series. It is a very good set of films that stars perhaps one of the only true leading men left in Hollyweird. Keanu Reeves is one of a very select class of stars, right up there with Tom Cruise and Sylvester Stallone, whose work ethic, dedication to his craft, and astonishing physical prowess – even at his advanced age – puts him FAR above his much younger competitors. You can really see just how hard Mr. Reeves worked for his roles, and how skilled he has become at every aspect of combat, to achieve these results, and the movies all benefit immensely from his meticulous attention to detail and perfectionist tendencies.

The movie itself is quite good. It is not as good as the first film, but is really right up there. While some of the action is just plain ridiculous, and the runtime is excessive – it could easily have been at least 30min shorter and not suffered at all from it – the film provides a very satisfying and compelling ending to the series.

I will let our drunken Scottish friend take it from here:

I highly recommend this movie. It is really good. Keanu Reeves gives the character the treatment he deserves for this, which looks like the final instalment in the series. Donnie Yen, Hiroyuki Sanada, Ian Macshane, Lawrence Fishburne, and a stellar cast of other actors really liven up the action – and the late, sorely missed Lance Reddick gets a very fitting and honourable farewell in the film.

Plus, Scott Adkins plays a role in this movie you really have to see to believe.

The fight and stunt choreography is magnificent, the music is amazing, the set-pieces are bonkers, and the whole thing just feels like a really good enjoyable experience, with a powerful ending.

This is a movie about honour, friendship, and brotherhood, in the end. John Wick gets the send-off he truly deserves. And while this movie is far from perfect – see above – it is definitely worth your time to watch. Go see it.


The Mighty God-Emperor

His Most Illustrious, Noble, August, Benevolent, and Legendary Celestial Majesty, the God-Emperor of Mankind, Donaldus Triumphus Magnus Astra, the First of His Name, the Lion of Midnight, may the Lord bless him and preserve him


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Dawn of Battle

The Male Brain has been very busy with Passover preparations this past week – the colour revolution staged by the USSA against its own “best friend and closest ally” in the Middle East probably didn’t help matters, either – but has found plenty to keep us busy as we all return to work after the Easter break. We start with a video from Moon discussing how Shell has managed to destroy Nigeria:

Keep in mind, this is the same company that desperately wants you to believe it is all about corporate social responsibility and ESG and DIE and all that other crap.

Fathers of Mercy presents an excellent sermon from Fr. David Wilton about the realities of wokeness, and how we defeat it:

Big Think talks about the decline of friendship and the resulting social atomisation, which has done so much to damage us all:

Wisecrack offers up an irreverent philosopher’s take on a longstanding moral quandary often used to confuse the hell out of students:

Reason looks at the actual data behind gun crimes in the USSA:

If you do indeed “look at the data!!!”, you will very quickly realise that guns are not, and have never been, the problem. The true issue is not guns – it is mental health among confused, fatherless, or poorly raised men.

Now, both TMB and I apologise for the thumbnail in this next video, because it will definitely make you reach for the “NUKE THIS SHIT!!!!!” button. This one is from Felix Rex aka Black Pigeon Speaks about why cuckservatives constantly lose:

I’ve talked about this for years. Conservatives keep losing because conservatism is an ephemeral set of guiding principles that have no firm foundation whatsoever. There is no hill to die on with conservatism. It is not at all like Christianity, where our doctrine is absolutely clear, and worth dying for.


Poli-ticking Off

Mark Dice laments the destruction of law and order in the USSA – news flash, gents, it’s been like this for DECADES, y’all have only JUST noticed it:


The dynamic duo over at Redacted took some time off last week to enjoy a well-deserved vacation, but Clayton Morris did us all a favour and recorded this video about the rapidly growing trend toward de-dollarisation and the manner in which the Saudis, of all people, are leading the charge:


Jackson Hinkle looks at Dmitriy Medvedev‘s statements about turning potential Western peacekeepers into targets for Russian ORKtillery in Banderastan – really just Dima doin’ Dima things on Telegram:

Dima is, of course, dead(ly) serious. The Russians do not bluff about these things – the very concept is actually rather alien to their psychology, they do not like deception and subterfuge and are themselves a rather plain-spoken bunch, which is among the many reasons why I like them.

Also, Jackson Hinkle’s girlfriend happens to be one Anna Linnikova (Анна Линникова), age 23 from Orenburg and crowned Miss Russia 2022:

Well played, young man – well played indeed. This is the kind of CHADness we all want to see.

This may explain Jackson’s pro-Russian sentiments – certainly, involvement with Russian ladies explains a large part of my own strongly Russophilic views – but that is not the end of the story. The fact is, the Russians are the righteous ones in the Banderastan War, and NATO and the USSA are backing quite literal neo-Nazis who have spent 9 years persecuting, humiliating, torturing, and exterminating ethnic Russians in Donbass.

Against THAT background, anyone objectively looking at the data cannot help but conclude that the Russians show immense restraint and humanity, if such a term can even be used in the context of the slaughter-pens of the Donbass, in their war.


Дед Сварливый Говорит!

Grandpa Grumpuss grumps, grumpily, about the sheer speed and ferocity of the geopolitical changes wracking our world – and the utter blindness of Western elites toward their implications:


It’s All Greek To Us

The good gentlemen of The Duran discuss the implications of OPEC+ production cuts and the breaking of the NATO alliance:


China Syndrome

Digging to China wonders if the yoof of the country are undergoing some sort of spiritual revival:


The closeted homo Frog and the Wicked Witch of the West(‘s sister) flew into Beijing for a summit with the New Mandarin, and it failed miserably:


The Bald Truth

Brian Berletic of The New Atlas breaks down the NATO document leaks and their implications for a forthcoming Banderite offensive:

The numbers I am hearing and seeing for this offensive are staggering. The Ukrainians have apparently amassed up to 200,000 men for this push – but they have nowhere near enough armour or artillery for that many men, and virtually no air cover. They rely entirely on Western leadership and C4ISR to manage the logistics and intelligence required for such an undertaking. And, if we have seen anything in the past year, we know that the West simply has zero understanding of how to fight a real combined-arms war.

This will end with a Ukrainian defeat, one way or another, and tens of thousands of dead men on both sides – but with the majority of those dead on the Ukrainian one. And it will mean the END of the Ukrainian nation as an independent entity.


Rulings from the Bench

Judge Andrew Napolitano has assembled an all-star cast of talking heads to interview each week, and they always serve to entertain and educate. We start with Larry Johnson:

And Maj. Scott Ritter:

The always excellent Col. Douglas Macgregor weighs in too:

And here is Col. Macgregor’s friend and fellow warrior LTC Tony Shaffer:


Righteous Rantery

PJW breaks down the latest genuinely insane battle in the culture wars:


The inimitable, irrepressible Katie Hopkins explains why that Scottish woman’s husband got his arse thrown in the clink, in her signature style:


Bad Medicine

Dr. John Campbell looks at the data from Australia – where EVERYTHING WANTS TO KILL YOU AND EAT YOUR EYEBALLS FOR JUJUBEES!!!, including, apparently, the doctors and the government – about the AstraZeneca not-vaxx:


Vejon Health looks at the correlations between not-vaxx rates and heart failure – the news is NOT good:


Dr. Suneel Dhand looks at the alarming rise in cancer rates among American servicemen:

We’re not saying it’s the not-vaxx… but it’s the not-vaxx.


Warriors of Faith

Tha Dizzle brings heartbreaking news during the Easter holiday:


Dr. Sean Macdowell speaks to Dr. Richard Gallagher about the medical and scientific evidence for possession – Dr. Gallagher specifically addresses the notorious case of Annaliese Michel toward the end of the interview, and concludes that she was, in fact, possessed:


Dr. Jay Smith from PfanderFilms explains how and why the Izzlamists get the details of the Crucifixion so badly wrong:


Al-Fadi from CIRA International and The Apostate Prophet talk about Mo’Lester the False Prophet’s seriously weird peccadilloes:


Father Spyridion offers up a great deal of wisdom on how to overcome some of the worst kinds of sins:


Manly Men of Manliness

Terrence Popp pulls no punches about the absolute state of the modren Left:


Joker from Better Bachelor gives you yet another reason to ditch cable:


Burn Paedowood to the Ground

Midnight’s Edge breaks down the defenestration of Bob Iger at the recent shareholder meeting for the House of the Devil Mouse – and it was glorious:


Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock goes full QAnon in discussing the news that STAR WARS is coming back, yet again, for yet more sequels that literally none of us care about:


Gary from Nerdrotic points out the undeniable TROOF about the DEM RANGZ O’ POWAH!!!:


Ryan Kinel attempts to explain just what the hell the Devil Mouse is thinking in bringing back Rey, a character literally no one wants or likes:


The Drinker scored a really good interview with none other than Russell Crowe, who turns out to be a very likeable and gentlemanly sort, not at all like the whore-media portrays him, and who does a good job of promoting his upcoming horror film about the late, great Fr. Gabriele Amourth:


Reading Too Much Into Things

Your “Science is F***ING WEIRD” moment of the week is a long piece from Eugene Kusmiak about the efficacy of the not-vaxxes (spoiler: not great):

A vaccine’s effectiveness in reducing disease spread is the only public health justification for requiring people to take it. There are plenty of private reasons for taking a vaccine – depending on your particular health conditions, it might reduce your chance of getting seriously ill or of dying – but those are private not public benefits so the decision rightly belongs to the individual not the government. The only public health justification for forcing people to take vaccines against their will is to protect others by reducing the spread of the disease. With negative effectiveness, the Covid vaccines increase disease spread so there is now a public health reason for prohibiting the vaccines. I believe individuals should make their own choices on medical treatments. But if the government does decide to get involved, it should be prohibiting, not mandating, the Covid vaccines.

The vaccine clinical trials in 2020 reported that the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines were extraordinarily effective at preventing Covid infections. To quote the Pfizer clinical trial: “BNT162b2 [the Pfizer vaccine] conferred 95% protection against Covid-19.” To quote Moderna: “The mRNA-1273 [Moderna] vaccine showed 94.1% efficacy at preventing Covid-19 illness.” But now we know that the vaccines’ effectiveness is not only nowhere near that high, it is almost certainly negative. Vaccinated people catch Omicron more often than unvaccinated people do. So, how could vaccine effectiveness fall from 95% to -200% or whatever it is today? I can only think of 3 possibilities: 1) The vaccine manufacturers lied. 2) Vaccine effectiveness fell from 95% to -200% because the vaccine temporarily revs up the body’s immune system at the cost of damaging it permanently. This would explain why, no matter how many boosters you get, they always show positive effectiveness immediately and then negative effectiveness later. 3) The vaccines were 95% effective against the original version of Covid but are -200% effective against Omicron, a variant created by natural selection to spread in a world where billions of people have a defective immune response because they are protected only against the original Covid variant. This was the subject that I wrote about last year.

I still think #3 is the explanation. Vaccines don’t go from 95% to -200% effective unless the virus changes by adapting to the vaccine.

In spite of the Covid vaccines’ clear ineffectiveness, or even anti-effectiveness, against infection and spread, I still found consistent evidence that they are around 50% effective at reducing hospitalizations and deaths. But before we celebrate this great victory for modern science – using 21st-century, never-before-tried mRNA technology to hijack your cells’ ribosomes and fill your body with synthetic virus proteins – let’s put into perspective just how mediocre this accomplishment is. A recent meta-study (a study of many other studies) on the effect of Vitamin D on Covid hospitalizations and deaths published at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9864223/ found that the average effect in all the studies they examined was that Vitamin D reduced Covid hospitalizations by 70% and Covid deaths by 50%.


Your long read of the week is a follow-up from the same Eugene Kusmiak about the safety of the not-vaxxes, and is nearly three times the length of the previous entry:

My conclusions from the research above are:

1. The vaccines are harmful. Obviously, the FDA should remove them from the market as they would normally do with any product that was even a fraction as dangerous. People in government and pharma need to go to jail for the deaths they caused.

2. However, this doesn’t mean that every vaccinated individual was severely harmed, or even harmed at all. For young people, Covid itself causes almost no injuries or deaths, and the vaccines probably cause few. For the elderly, Covid sometimes leads to pneumonia and death, but in most cases it is just a very bad cold. The vaccines are probably worse than that – in some cases deadly, but in most cases not. The vaccines are bad, but not apocalyptic.

3. Of course, you can’t directly compare getting Covid with getting vaccinated because you can’t choose between them. If the vaccines worked perfectly, and vaccinated people never caught Covid, then you could choose one and not the other, although even then being unvaccinated and catching Covid is probably safer than getting vaccinated and preventing Covid. But that’s not how the vaccines work in real life. The vaccines make you more likely to catch Covid, not less likely (the subject of my other paper). So, the choice people actually face is a) remain unvaccinated and suffer a chance of catching Covid, or b) get vaccinated, possibly be harmed by the vaccine, and then suffer a greater chance of catching Covid, which can also hurt you. The risks are not separable, they are additive. This is not a hard choice.

But I do not buy the strange claims made by people who believe the vaccine was created by depopulationists to kill everybody who took it. It’s obvious that they are wrong because their claims follow the same trajectory as all false claims: first they said the vaccines will kill you immediately, but that didn’t happen; now they say the vaccines will kill you in 5 or 10 years, but we can be pretty sure (based on my mortality regressions in section 1 of this report) that this won’t happen either; so then they will say the vaccines will kill you in 20 or 30 years. But the years have a bad habit of passing all too quickly, and these extreme predictions will never come true. This is the way false claims die: eventually the forecasts extend so far out into the future that they become unfalsifiable. From Christian End Times to Climate Change Catastrophe, prophets have been foretelling the end of the world forever. When their predictions don’t come true, they never admit that they were wrong. They just keep changing the timing.

The depopulationist theory also has another problem: how exactly was the evildoers’ plan supposed to work? In the US, and much of the Western world, the vaccine was mostly taken by Elites/Liberals/Democrats, and mostly refused by Deplorables/Conservatives/Republicans. So, what was the evil globalists’ master plan exactly – to kill off the gullible, easily-frightened snowflakes, and hand America over to the monster-truck-driving, gun-toting badasses? That doesn’t seem like something Klaus Schwab and Bill Gates would want to do.

Finally, I have to say something about the bizarre media landscape in which the vaccine controversy has played out. The print and TV media have maintained a 100% blockade on any information contradicting the approved vaccine narrative of “safe and effective”. Social media companies also enforced a 100% blockade on dissenting views, with anyone questioning the narrative immediately banned. 100% blockades are not supposed to be possible in a competitive marketplace, but this did happen, which means the US media is not a free market but a controlled oligopoly. The total news blackout has so far ended at only one company, Twitter, and only after Elon Musk bought it, so maybe it’s a 95% media blackout now. Of course, there are plenty of websites, such as substack, that are not controlled by corporate behemoths like Google and Facebook, so anyone can write anything they want there, but the corporate press and social media remain by far the main sources of news for most people. Yet in spite of suppressing all dissent, the public now appears to know that the vaccines are dangerous.


Linkage is good for you – I’ll fix the links tomorrow:

And some more from Dawn Pine:


MUH RUSHIAN KAHLOOOOOZHUN!!!

The Neo-Tsar met with fellow strongman Aleksandr Lukashenko to discuss the current and future of the “Union State” project, which would see Russia and Belarus eventually unify into a single economic, and probably political, bloc:


Our Orthodox brethren are celebrating Holy Week according to their calendar this week, so here is something for them:


Those Who Fail To Learn From History…

History lessons of the week:


HALO Nation

Slayergod Remy aka Mint Blitz does his thing while discussing the departure of longtime 343i studio head Joseph Staten:

Yeah, let’s just say things really are not looking good for HALO in the long run.


Learning at the Master’s Feet

Nerd of the Rings discusses the legendary and terrifying Gothmog:


Bring on the Grimdark

Warrior Tier talks about the taciturn and towering presence of Rogal Dorn, the Primarch of the Imperial Fists:


That’s Not Gone Well…

Wazzocks gonna wazzock:


Kitchen Nightmares with the Angry Scot:


Comedy hour:


Meme Warfare

We begin with some classic Passover memes from our good friend Dawn Pine:

Sounds about right
Also – you all die during the trip
Can confirm
True. You need the big guy with you
First, can confirm
Second, there were 600K men above the age of 20. So we are probably looking at 5 times that number.
Can repeatedly confirm
Not my experience, it must be said
Just… OUCH
Jews KNOW how to throw a party

Onward:

I FEEL YOU, BRO!
Hot, athletic, articulate, AND has brains and a spine – wife material
CAN CONFIRM

Animal Planet

Your aminules are adorkable moment of the week:

And also your animals are absolute DICKS moment of the week, to balance things out:

And finally, your “Meanwhile, in Russia” moment of the week:

That has got to be the most pampered cheetah in the world.


The Lords of Steel

Gym beast props this week go to a farmer named Steve Bake:

He reminds me rather a bit of Benedikt Magnusson, actually.


Ass-Kicking of the Eight Limbs


They See Me Rollin’…


Palate Cleansers

Shuffle Off

Jump-Starts

She’s seriously cute – and really, really skilled.

Gingervitis Injections


Dear Japan, WTFH?!?!


Soul Music

Gregorian chants drive away daemons and soothe the soul:


Livin’ in the Land of the Metal Gods

Also Einstein: “I fear that someday people will post my pic on the Internet with bogus made-up quotations in Comic Sans font”

I received a musical suggestion from reader Randomatos, concerning a band called PROJECT 86. I will be checking these guys out over the next few days – many thanks for the recommendation:


Rock Out With Your Glock Out


Hot Totty

And finally here is your Instathot to get the week off to an insalubrious start. This is Naiara Yunes, age 27, apparently from Argentina (or Mexico – I can’t quite tell). She does modelling stuff.

OK, that’s it, show’s over, back to the boring stuff.

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6 Comments

  1. Randomatos

    The best part of Mondays is when the browser smasher drops and the new playlist and linkage are up! It seeds the shop soundtrack for the week.

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  2. Robert W

    “a man in India has built 250,000 homes for sparrows, and it really is nice to find an Indian who is kind to animals;”

    Pardon my ignorance, I thought that kindness to animals was common in India due to the reincarnation part of the Hindu faith. Is kindness to animals uncommon broadly in India?

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    • furor kek tonicus ( "Fake And Gay" is not redundancy, it's emphasis of the syllable )

      there are a billion people in India. you’ll find a bit of everything there, such as Aghoris.
      .
      but in general, yes, Hindus normally try to avoid killing animals and they have great regard for some species ( such as cattle ) due one of the gods having an avatar in that form or other religious significance.

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      • Didact

        1.4 billion. And counting. Rising every single day.

        Hindus only really have high regard for cows, because they are sacred (and bulls, because one of the avatars of their most important goddesses rode a bull into battle to slay a terrible daemon, or some such). Other animals – not so much. They treat dogs abominably in India, and cats don’t fare too much better.

        The Hindu cycle of reincarnation, which I’ve dunked on extensively before due to its lack of logic, posits – depending on which guru/sage/Veda/whatever you follow – that, if you live an unworthy life in the past, you will be reborn as a lower life form in your next incarnation. So if you are reborn as an animal of some kind, you are suffering punishment for something you did wrong.

        Beyond that, the lines get awfully blurry and very weird in a very big hurry. Some sects, such as the Jains, say that inflicting harm or pain of any kind is morally wrong – they are basically the Fruitarians of India, except even crazier, with even more highly restrictive diets, so they only eat an extremely limited set of foods and will not even so much as swat a mosquito if it tries to feed on them.

        Other sects regard it as perfectly moral to kill certain animals, because, again, divine/karmic punishment, or whatever.

        I’m not saying any of it makes sense, mind you, I’m just saying, this is what they believe.

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  3. Cato the Uncensored

    re Sanna Marin, let’s not confuse pretty with attractive. She’s an H6C8 on the Crazy-Hot matrix.

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  4. Chris

    I like to imagine how she’d look in my kitchen canning vegetables from our garden. Or making home-made bread, hair pulled back, apron on, bit of flour on her cheek. That’s the acid test. 🙂

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